I have been trying for 3 days to install LinuxMCE from verious methods. Bottomline is after following every thread and help article on how to get past the AV/Wizards "Unable to start X" error message, I am now locking up upon a normal boot process. I hear the down trending tones and the screen goes black and states "No Signal" when I was getting the "Unable to start X" message I was able to press the power button and the machine would gracefully shutdown. Now it will not even do that. I thought I might have made progress and was trying to follow the notes for BlackScreen problems and pressing the 1-4 keys on the keyboard to select my output. I'm using the DVI port on the card to a 42" LCD monitor.

I can reboot and select the recovery mode to follow any instructions that someone is willing to post. I would really like to use this software.

I have been trying for 3 days to install LinuxMCE from verious methods. Bottomline is after following every thread and help article on how to get past the AV/Wizards "Unable to start X" error message, I am now locking up upon a normal boot process. I hear the down trending tones and the screen goes black and states "No Signal" when I was getting the "Unable to start X" message I was able to press the power button and the machine would gracefully shutdown. Now it will not even do that. I thought I might have made progress and was trying to follow the notes for BlackScreen problems and pressing the 1-4 keys on the keyboard to select my output. I'm using the DVI port on the card to a 42" LCD monitor.

I can reboot and select the recovery mode to follow any instructions that someone is willing to post. I would really like to use this software.

Thanks

Hi,

There are plenty of threads here and pages on the Wiki that will help get an ATI card working (with limitations)... however if this is your first experience of LinuxMCE my suggestion would be to buy yourself a supported nVidia card and avoid all the hassle.

Ok, I'm open to purchasing an nVidia card to avoid all the hassle, and beleive me, I have read about every thread I can search for.

First question... What do you consider the best working nVidia card for LinuxMCE?

Second. Before I run out and buy one. Have you had any experience with ATI cards? If I could get this to work, then I could save a little money...

I'm willing to post anything you might ask for as far as Xorg.conf settings, fglrx stuff etc.. Right now, when I type fglrxinfo it says "Error: unable to open display (null)" So I gotta think I'm doing something wrong in my xorg.conf file...

I'm also unable to connnect to the machine with ssh remotely so I can copy and past values from the file in here. It asks me for a username and password. when I provide username root and the password that I set when the box was being installed it fails with bad password. Any Ideas on this so I can get you the values from my Xorg.conf file?

Uni, I have followed most of the FAQs out there, I just think I'm doing something incorrectly etc... would love for someone to ask me troubleshooting questions and allow me to post the results... after three days, My head is swimming with all the things I have tried, and think I need to get back to the Basics, whatever those are..

Avoid the hassles, go and buy an nVidia card, they have far better support in LMCE. You do not need a high end card. 6200-7300 chipsets are just fine... 8xxx series cards will ultimately provide hardware acceleration, but again, not necessary at this point.

Read the Display Drivers wiki on how to install the latest nVidia drivers, once the card is installed. The only other thing to think about is disabling in BIOS your onboard chipset if this is possible. If it is not, you can work around it quite easily at the command line.... come back then if you have this issue, and we can provide instructions for that.

Ok, I'm open to purchasing an nVidia card to avoid all the hassle, and beleive me, I have read about every thread I can search for.

First question... What do you consider the best working nVidia card for LinuxMCE?

Second. Before I run out and buy one. Have you had any experience with ATI cards? If I could get this to work, then I could save a little money...

I'm willing to post anything you might ask for as far as Xorg.conf settings, fglrx stuff etc.. Right now, when I type fglrxinfo it says "Error: unable to open display (null)" So I gotta think I'm doing something wrong in my xorg.conf file...

I'm also unable to connnect to the machine with ssh remotely so I can copy and past values from the file in here. It asks me for a username and password. when I provide username root and the password that I set when the box was being installed it fails with bad password. Any Ideas on this so I can get you the values from my Xorg.conf file?

I'd look at the nVidia 9300 or 9400 cards now as the marginal premium you'll pay over earlier cards is worth paying now that full hardware acceleration is just around the corner...

Well I have purchased the Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS and it is working Great.

Thanks for the help.

Next Item to setup that I'm having troublewith is teh Pinnacle MCE remote Kit that I had purchased. one of the main reasons I went with this is because I saw a post where someone got it working. But I can't..

Well I have purchased the Nvidia Geforce 8400 GS and it is working Great.

Thanks for the help.

Next Item to setup that I'm having troublewith is teh Pinnacle MCE remote Kit that I had purchased. one of the main reasons I went with this is because I saw a post where someone got it working. But I can't..

Anyone care to help on that?

Glad your up and running :-)

Whats the Pinnacle SKU or model No.? if its MCE/Vista compatible its probably just the usb vendor ID that is not getting recognised.